"How do they feel about the dead satellite space shot ??"
Washington - A group of prominent scientists who have been critical of missile defense plans told lawmakers Wednesday that a system being built by the United States cannot protect the country.
They also questioned whether the Defense Department has misled the public and European allies about the system's capabilities.
''The program offers no prospect of defending the United States from a real-world missile attack and undermines efforts to eliminate the real nuclear threats to the United States,'' Lisbeth Gronlund, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists,
About the union :
In 1997, the UCS circulated a petition entitled "A Call to Action". The petition called for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, and was signed by 110 Nobel Prize laureates, including 104 Nobel Prize-winning scientists.
In February 2004, the Union received press attention for its publication "Scientific Integrity in Policymaking". The report criticized the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush for "politicizing" science.
"Seems to me that they engage in a tad of "politicizing" themselves !"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-04-16-missile-plan_N.htm
